#wit

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#conflict #contentment #finding-answers #going-with-the-flow #inner-fulfilment

Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#dorothy #hope #ignorance #innocence #philosophy

My father also told me that he felt free in that little hole in the ground, much freer than he felt outside, where he was always being chased by the criminals of the regime. That freedom came from inside, from his thoughts, from his soul; and nobody could take that from him. ↗

— Teodor Flonta

#life #love #secret-police #transylvania #vampires

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love

Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#love-the-one-your-with #love

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#artists #complexity #friendship #music #musicians

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner. ↗

— Ben Stein

#among #anyone #big #big time #except

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love. ↗

— Anne Rice

#deciet #hate #interview-with-the-vampire #lestat #lie

Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love. ↗

— Tarryn Fisher

#dirty-red #leah #love #love-me-with-lies #olivia

Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#love